I have been musing on retiring to Africa, so perhaps the Golden Marigold Hotel is not such a bad Idea. A great article here on the decline of dating, which presumably is upstream of fertility for mos… (View Post)

Yes, I can see the perspective of South Korean women. Voluntary enslavement is an unpopular choice. I have recently read Haidts excellent book: "The Anxious Generation" about the influence … (View Post)

What the issue is here is not NHS vs Private care, it is medical complexity with multiple long term conditions impacting on one another. Certainly in systems that pay fee for service intervention rat… (View Post)

There are clear implications for how we work and retire, and on economic activity, but overall a declining population stresses the planet less. A declining fertility rate in the short term does boost… (View Post)

It's not as if we can influence what is going on in Syria much in any case, we just need to deal with whatever new regime comes about. I would suggest positive engagement, at least in the first … (View Post)